Opinion
Amid news that Donald Trump is about to be indicted by a hyper-partisan prosecutor and of his hysterical responses, and prompted by vagrant reading about the W…
by Michael Barone March 27, 2023I'm writing this in mid-March. Despite freezing temperatures right now, there's no chance of snow left on the calendar. Winter precipitation missed Little Rock…
by Steve Straessle March 27, 2023The usually impressive political instincts of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis deserted him recently when attempting to pander to the isolationist MAGA crowd.
by Bradley Gitz March 27, 2023Taxes are how we come together to pay for things that benefit all Arkansans: good schools, health care and emergency services, well-maintained roads and bridge…
by Bruno Showers Special to the Democrat-Gazette March 27, 2023Resurrecting the past
March 27, 2023"Bishop," Aunt Nan said one day. "Billy has always been pretty, but it seems to me she is growing more beautiful every day. I look at her and wonder. And she d…
by Celia Storey March 27, 2023Let's play Obfuscation, a game with three parts:
by Celia Storey March 27, 2023NASCAR driver and reporter Kenny Wallace retired in 2015 after driving in the national series since 1988. His 25-year career included nine wins, all in the NAS…
by Celia Storey March 27, 2023An Arkansas politician during Reconstruction, James M. Hinds is one of the six members in the history of the U.S. Congress to have been murdered, as well as th…
by Encyclopedia of Arkansas March 26, 2023I got an email the other day from a watch company--not a Swiss watch company, but an American up-and-comer you've probably never heard of--inviting me to becom…
by Philip Martin March 26, 2023Twenty years ago last week, I watched the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on TV in a hotel room in Amman, Jordan, wondering whether it was good or bad l…
by BOBBY GHOSH BLOOMBERG March 26, 2023No matter how many interviews or studies are done, I don't think you can understand the innermost feelings of a white Southerner unless you are one.
by Richard Mason March 26, 2023The time of smoke-filled back-room deals that undermine the will of the people has yet to come to an end.
by Robert Steinbuch March 26, 2023There was magic in the Albuquerque air recently. For only the fifth time in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history, a university's athletic te…
by CARMIE HENRY Special to the Democrat-Gazette March 26, 2023Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wants a "national divorce." In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries.
by MICHAEL J. LEE The Conversation March 26, 2023